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idk, it was the first thing that popped into my head https://t.co/kAsX3q1FKM

The slope isn’t slippery, it’s vertical and greased. They’ll add “extremist material” to this tomorrow. What do they think other countries will do with this capability? They’ll put NSO out of business by building the capability right in. https://t.co/TgWuFLtJns https://t.co/J47GflvK8t

If I wanted all my data automatically scanned and, if flagged, viewed by humans without my knowledge or consent, I’d already be a Dropbox customer!

Human beings deserve privacy in their communications and data, and this is wrong. Deeply disappointed in Apple for this, and angry that my options to choose privacy erode every day.

If this meets Apple’s standards for privacy, I’m not sure what I gain by staying with them over the creepy snooping I get out of a Google/Microsoft/Dropbox experience. https://t.co/FZkwmwAfxp

I see other people are thinking about this too - maybe it will be get fixed! https://t.co/XqJr5Ud0Sh

CW: Outlook Express for Unix I like to think of myself as a worldly man but this is some deeply twisted shit. https://t.co/UDFzGdwG8f

Getting copy and paste to Outlook Express/Solaris <-> VM required a bit of creativity. I do like that OE has an icon in the dock. https://t.co/KWyjtpbmzt

RT @NanoRaptor: 8” PowerBook g4 with and without dock. https://t.co/5Ox6B14Ya6

I had a similar thought this week trying to use a Citrix Remote Desktop. Google Stadia is purported to be very good, but resizing a window on this thing was a miserable experience. So much low hanging fruit in software, somehow, still. https://t.co/jcxqDDA1rq

Example: @SlugLibrary. This thing can chew insanely detailed vector graphics, at any perspective, any zoom level, perfectly anti-aliased, at insane framerates on the GPU. I don't know any vector tool like Illustrator, or word processor or browser currently leveraging this tech. https://t.co/zuctMUuBbH

Oh and I’d like to correct my estimate. With all the wasteful code that could be native, multi-threaded, optimized, or run in the GPU, we’re probably barely reaching 5-10% of efficiency, maybe even less.

Games are some of the only softwares incentivized to run extremely fast: - educated public sensitive to perf - scrutiny from tech journalists - strong competition Gamedevs HAVE to care. In many fields, almost no performance / revenue correlation, so it's an afterthought.

Yet, the UX of modern computers is rather awful compared to what it could be. The amount of layers to send a simple signal has gotten absolutely insane, wasting thousands of cycles & adding latency. There isn't any good excuse for slow software in 2021. https://t.co/hlnIO92rsI

A $499 Xbox is as powerful the fastest supercomputer in 2000, the IBM ASCI White (12 vs 12.3 teraFLOPS). That's how far public hardware has come in the last 20 years. https://t.co/kw50M57LCI

How much processing power, energy and ultimately CO2 is wasted on terrible programming, legacy codebases stacking dozens of abstraction layers, and inefficient use of hardware? In my estimate, most software run only at 20-40% of their potential speed given the hardware. https://t.co/Rr5UdBdipO

oh gosh, here I go coding silly jokes again https://t.co/31Zc4aeMFZ https://t.co/Ehta62OBd1

It's just sad and software engineers, collectively all over the planet, really ought to be held to higher standards. The machines we are working on are capable of *so* much more than what I experience almost every day.

We solved a lot of the hard problems, we flew to the moon 60 years ago, the fact that a 64-core machine is consumer hardware is a miracle, but software running on it can be such an utter shitshow. And most of the things that don't work aren't even hard problems.

The last 3 days have been disheartening for me and the work I do, and what I posted was just the tip of the iceberg. Mind you, I'm working on what would have been a Supercomputer not too long ago, a 10k 64-core machine, and some of the software experience I have is just abysmal.

I know it's not realistic, but imagine just for a minute what your (dev) day of working with computers could look like if every single software company stopped shipping features, and fixed all known bugs instead. Every single bug.

RT @nogoodtulip: me building a tower that’s tall enough to reach heaven: ahaha yes! fuck yes! sejejjvb oajskj quibkdj oihsb foi: heeeebdbd…

RT @ahl: Always be sure to provide ample parking when presenting a google doc https://t.co/9tWKMLJvNq

15 year old me dreamt of a house like this https://t.co/iNTRcxZOUW

This is a fascinating data center disguised as a McMansion, and it can be yours for only $989k! https://t.co/cnhqWFNfuG https://t.co/fc0zlGqYfo

“TikTok only needs one important piece of information to figure out what you want: the amount of time you linger over a piece of content. Every second you hesitate or rewatch, the app is tracking you.” I really resent this. https://t.co/X6dHJz01MV

All of my friends think I’m insane but I totally hate most Internet video. Transcripts are better! https://t.co/LRKoceY6bu

Great talk. Love to read talks about Twitter bots and non-corporate tech. The transcript was really good - I’m sure I would have bookmarked it and promptly forgotten to watch I t if there was no transcript. https://t.co/fNmCdMtRsB

RT @FiloSottile: In case anyone is keeping score, nine months ago the RIAA tried to take youtube-dl down. youtube-dl users were unaffected…

I'm really proud of this talk, after rereading it. Tracery is a very small project and did a lot of things accidentally, but then it helped me discover that being tiny, human readable, easy to use and leave as you please, easy to port, these are all important and valuable! https://t.co/LDEAEKpmYu

Do people in movies ever try to estimate what percentage of the part they worked on is underappreciated by viewers who just have to pee

@nuempe Ahh nice, I found credit, but didn't understand the forrk/unrecord workflow. Will look into this later this week, thanks!

I love the internet but I hate youtube. I don’t think I’ve ever watched a three and a half hour YouTube video in my life. That sounds like hell to me https://t.co/Zsa133zWuA

📄2021 #OSSTA Lecture: Kate Compton Hello, Goodbye: Why You Should Let Your Users Go ❝Because [Tracery's] a very small library and it doesn’t do anything terribly complex, it ended up being able to run largely without me. —@GalaxyKate https://t.co/USjy9zQBkD https://t.co/PIlzzz1wOc

📄2021 #OSSTA Lecture: Marina Ayano Kittaka ❝I wanted a platform that I felt agency over and other people could feel agency over, where it felt like it was yours and you could tend to it and invest in it, and have something to look back on… —@even_kei https://t.co/HGjQb026HV https://t.co/VS2nZBQs6T

📄2021 #OSSTA Lecture: Nathalie Lawhead ❝If you do anything generative on computers and don’t know what to do with whatever you just made, turning that into a little tool that people can use…goes a long way. —@alienmelon https://t.co/OABR4Ug6oq https://t.co/VuYiGSDUa0

📄2021 #OSSTA Lecture: Everest Pipkin ❝I work with data sets, but with the full knowledge that this is the lives and experiences of people bundled up and repackaged through processes angled for usefulness or at the very least posterity. —@everestpipkin https://t.co/Ao5VHF1LQu https://t.co/6n5stgAXhv

The nice thing about enterprise gear is remote management. I wish there was a robust quiet low power remotely managed solution, but I am not aware of even expensive options for such a thing. https://t.co/GZlAA1N0Fa

Pi-KVM is a DIY solution though. I haven’t used it’s ATX remote power stuff, though (too lazy lol). https://t.co/TuBSpb14Hq

@mrled There's `pijul credit`. For checking out old versions, you need to call `pijul fork`, then `pijul unrecord`. There's a better way coming up very soon.

Did NOT learn how to find per-file history in Pijul. Not sure it's possible?

AHA, I can compile the example code now. I used sample code from the docs (see link), and learned to add 'macros' feature to tokio dependency, and learned that thrussh is not version-locked to thrussh-keys (and I needed a newer version of thrussh) https://t.co/kFtu6zAjh7

... September? Maybe I am having trouble with this because my brain is apparently mush

Would be cool to contribute to Tor's Rust project . Learn Rust . . Rewrite a project (remembyte) in Rust . . . Need Rust SSH client . . . . Find thrussh library . . . . . Can't build example . . . . . . Download repo to search . . . . . . . Lean to use new version system (Pijul)

A Partially Shaven Yak, script by Micah R Ledbetter, home office, Austin TX, September 26, 2021

It doesn't do much yet but it does work. Maybe this time I'll finally implement the experiment I originally wanted - mapping bytes to sentences‽ We shall see... https://t.co/AGJxFCWv8I

I had never heard of Pijul before. Now I can clone new repos in it but I definitely can't call up the history of a single file (yet). lol https://t.co/RYAaWc70Zg

This code does not work for me even a tiny bit but 2 decades of reading "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" has me afraid to just ask. Sad! https://t.co/CLM1tuBHrJ

This is the only valid definition for “gunship” https://t.co/1jChmUDflq

Speaking of... *waves hand at whatever this topic is*, I've got a other idea: Take an A-10 Warthog. Strip off the engines, fuel tanks, etc. Maybe modify the control surfaces to work in the other direction, then take it off backwards using only the gun for thrust.